This volume focuses on the past, current and future success of Maori and Pasifika peoples in tertiary education within Aotearoa New Zealand. Diverse issues are canvassed, from the countries colonial history, to Maori and Pasifika identity, student support initiatives, special populations, pedagogy and mentoring, the experiences of mature students, to student engagement with new technologies. The book represents the struggle of Maori people to claim space within the academy and how successful claims are now reaping rewards. The volume will inform an international audience about local initiatives, including the responsiveness of 'mainstream' tertiary provider organisations (e.g. universities) to Maori and Pasifika higher education aspirations, responses to higher education provision, and, the reclaiming of traditional higher education spaces by Maori.

To Go or Not to Go? To support my husband in his life's work in a country far away? Or to stay in our own country to care for our children? This was the dilemma facing many twentieth century Congo missionaries who were both wives and mothers. There would usually be little choice as to their decision. A wife was expected, and she herself expected, to support her husband wherever his career or vocation took him. Missionaries' own children would generally have to be found alternative homes or be sent to boarding school. The mothers would not only have to endure the consequent family separation but also misunderstanding and personal guilt. 'Mission and Motherhood' recounts and reflects upon the true stories of four Yakusu missionary mothers who bore this personal sacrifice with courage, dignity and discretion.

Lady Winifred Chesterman, wife of the renowned missionary doctor, Sir Clement Chesterman, was in her own right a superb Froebel-trained infant teacher and a highly respected missionary to the people of Yakusu, in what was then the Belgian Congo. From 1920 until 1936 Winifred loved, taught and mothered hundreds of Congolese children. Yet she also had five children of her own, five children who were always central to her heart, and for whom after 1936 she would successfully build a happy united family. Here Hazel Phillips, Winifred's fifth and youngest child, writes of what she knows of her mother's life. She tells of growing up in a united happy family and of her mother's devoted service both to her own children and to children everywhere. Hazel herself would have severe health problems and would especially appreciate her mother's steadfast care